RU2063685C1 - Pollen trap - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: pollen trap has casing with horizontal guides made in its side walls. Detachable ceiling, pollen separating and pollen taking screens are retracted into casing and withdrawn from casing along guides. Vertical partition with bee-entrance is positioned in casing in parallel with rear wall. Bees exit from pollen trap casing into beehive casing through bee-entrance chamber defined between partition and rear wall. When rear wall is removed, bees exit outside. Bee- entrance chamber has upper and lower openings, which may be covered by closure. Pollen collector disposed below casing is formed as carcass with pollen receiving woven fabric stretched on carcass. Lower part of each carcass side part is provided with pollen ventilating recesses. Pollen trap may be mounted on bottom or above brood nest. Bees get into pollen trap through bee-entrance made in front wall. EFFECT: increased efficiency, reduced tendency to caking and provision for keeping high qualities for prolonged time. 4 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to the field of beekeeping.

 Known dust collectors made in the form of a housing with parallel lattices and openings for entry and exit of bees (for example, author certificate N 4494263, class A 01 K 47/06, 1983, author certificate N 1268137, class A 01 K 47/06, 1986, US patent N 4291424, CL A 01 K 47/06, 1981).

 The disadvantage of these pollen catchers is that they can only be installed under the frames in the hive, which prevents the collection of pollen from bees passing through the upper notch.

 Known pollen trap installed in the hive above the frames (see the book. Machichek M. Beekeeping equipment, inventory and their home-made production. 1988. "Nature", Bratislava, p. 361).

 The use of such a dust collector is limited by the impossibility of changing its location in the hive.

 For the prototype adopted dust collector, devoid of these disadvantages, because its design allows you to place the pollen in the hive at different levels (UK application N 2094608, CL A 01 K 47/06, 1982). The specified dust collector consists of a housing with front, rear and side walls, on which guides for the lower dust collecting and upper dust separating gratings are mounted. The front wall of the pollen collector has a notch, combined with the notch of the hive. The dimensions of the dust collector body are smaller than the size of the hive, due to which passages are formed to return the bees to the hive. The pollen collector is a box near the front wall of the pollen collector, where pollen collected from the bees that have passed through the pollen collecting grate is collected by means of a scraper.

 The disadvantages of the prototype are, firstly, that the bees do not have a way out of the pollen trap outside the hive, the orientation of the bees when leaving the pollen trap is not provided, which worsens the living conditions of the bees in the hive with a pollen trap in it, and secondly, collecting pollen requires additional labor costs due to the need to clean the case with a scraper and regularly release the box from the collected pollen in order to avoid damage to the pollen.

 This pollen collector is devoid of these drawbacks due to the fact that it provides a controlled exit of bees, which makes it possible to direct the bees to the upper or lower part of the hive or simultaneously in both directions, as well as outside the hive.

 This is achieved due to the fact that the pollen collector has a trough chamber with overlapping caps for the upper and lower openings. The rear wall of the housing of the dust collector is removable. The letkovka chamber is formed by a vertical partition installed in parallel with the letka in the case. The pollen collector is arranged in the form of a frame with a pollen receiver of pollen stretched in it, while the sides of the frame in the lower parts have cutouts for ventilation. This design provides constant pollen ventilation by the bees themselves, which does not require too frequent removal of pollen from the hive. Better pollen conservation is also facilitated by the additional intake of outside air with the rear wall removed, as well as the presence of a ceiling.

 The invention is illustrated by drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows a dust collector housing, a general view, in Fig. 2 the front wall of the housing, in Fig. 3 - gratings and a removable ceiling, in Fig. 4 a pollen collector.

 The dust collector has the following design.

 The housing contains a front wall 1 with a notch, a rear removable wall 3 and side walls 6. On the side walls 6 there are guides for a removable ceiling 8, made solid or fine mesh, a dust collecting grill 9 with calibrated round holes with a diameter of 5 mm, with rounded upper and lower edges for the passage of bees, and a dust-collecting grating 10 with elongated slotted holes with a slit width of 4 mm All grilles slide out of the housing along the rails. In parallel with the removable rear wall 3, a partition 5 is fixedly fixed in the housing with an opening for the passage of bees. Between the wall 3 and the partition 5, a tray chamber is formed with the upper and lower bars 4 having openings for the passage of bees. To close the openings, a cap 2 is provided. The housing has a bottom 7 with an opening for ventilation.

 When installing a dust collector in hives of a special design with a front aperture over the entire width of the front wall, the aperture is blocked with a front beehive inventory plug 11 with a rectangular notch, which is closed by a standard let-down choker. On the end of the stub is an alien beam.

 Under the lower grill 10, a pollen collector 12 is mounted. The pollen collector consists of a rectangular frame 13, two side planks of which are rigidly interconnected by weathered blocks 14. At the bottom of the side planks there are cutouts 15 for ventilation, and at the end ends of the side planks there are triangular cutouts into which the ends of the removable sections are inserted racks. The tension of the fabric is carried out by means of a rod 16, at the ends of which lateral trims are inserted. The stem is located under the fabric. Due to the tension of the fabric, the removable rails with their ends are tightly clamped by the end triangles of the side planks.

 The work of the dust collector.

 With the bottom location of the dust collector (in hives with an increased frame space of at least 145 mm), the work is carried out as follows. A bee arriving with a stalk enters the hive through the front lower notch, the horizontal slit of which is located at the level of the notch of the front wall 1 of the pollen collector. After passing the notch of the hive and the notch of the front wall of the pollen collector, pollen enters the space formed by the lower and middle lattices of the pollen collector. The exit from this space is only up through the calibrated openings of the middle lattice. After passing through elongated openings with zinced edges that prevent damage to the wings of bees, the bees fall into the space between the middle lattice and the fine-meshed or continuous ceiling of the dust collector, then through the slit-like opening of the partition 5 of the dust collector they enter the flight chamber and pass through the opening in the upper block into the nest housing. In this case, the aperture in the lower block of the flight chamber is closed by a plug 2. The crumbling from the bees through the lower grate is collected on the receiving tissue. The stump remains uncontaminated due to the presence of the ceiling and does not stick to pieces due to ventilation through the fabric by the bees themselves.

 With a ceiling arrangement, the dust collector basically works similarly to the above. The difference lies in the fact that the pollen collector itself is installed directly on the frame of the hive, and at the level of its notch, a notch is made in the front wall of the hive, which are closely adjacent to each other. At the same time, the opening in the lower bar of the flight chamber remains open, and the opening in the upper bar is closed with a plug.

 In special hives equipped with a housing with a working opening blocked by an insert with a notch, for the upper placement of the dust collector, this building with a working opening and with a dust collector placed in it is installed on the hive building, then the opening is closed with an insert with a let. YYY2

Claims (1)

 A dust collector comprising a housing with front, rear and side walls with horizontal guides on which are located the lower dust separating and upper dust collecting grates and a pollen collector, characterized in that the housing is equipped with a solid or mesh removable ceiling and a vertical partition with an opening for passage of bees installed in parallel the rear wall with the formation between them of the pit chamber with the upper and lower openings for the exit of bees from the housing, which has a plug for closing the openings, while the back the casing wall is removable, the pollen collector is made in the form of a frame mounted under the casing with a pollen tissue receiver pulled in it, and the lower parts of the sidewalls of the frame have cutouts for ventilation.

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